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“Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.”

“A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is.”

‘But as I try and understand how life works, and why some people cope better than others with adversity- I come back to something to do with saying yes to life, which is love of life, however inadequate, and love for the self, however found. Not in the me-first way that is the opposite of life and love,but with a salmon-like determination to swim upstream, however choppy upstream is, because this is your stream’